Stanley Cup riot

More than two years after hooligans poured through the streets of downtown Vancouver, torching cars, looting stores and beating anyone standing in their way, police are recommending another raft of charges.

A B.C. teenager took several photos of a man being arrested. He committed no crime in doing so. Shortly afterward, however, he was tackled, handcufffed, put into a police car and had his cameras seized. The teen was ordered to delete the photos, but couldn't. His camera used physical film.

The No. 1 suspect in last year's Stanley Cup riot has for months existed as a nameless face on a police wanted poster, a young man in a blue Vancouver Canucks jersey placed on a photo grid of more than 100 people suspected of burning cars, looting stores and in some cases assaulting others.

It’s the nature of the beast In which the Tories continue slowly destroying themselves for no reason at all. The Ottawa Citizen’s Dan Gardner directs some well-deserved praise at Elizabeth May for her wonkish, principled and useful opposition to the government’s omnibus “budget” bill. Ultimately the bill will pass, of course, and May suspects the […]

The city plans to put out little red carpets at its community centres, inviting families and youth to watch the playoffs in more toned-down conditions than the closed streets and Jumbotron screens from last year